This piece is about that perplexing zone in our mind between sleep and wakefulness, where nothing is certain. It is redolent with bits of memory, parts of dreams, and fragmentary sensations of uneasiness. We enter a destabelised world where established perceptions buried in our psyche take hold. We toss and turn and,in our minds, we travel along a seam of sensations between waking and sleeping unable to do either, and unable to know where reality lies.
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The installation consists of at least 7 rooms. In each room, a projected kinetic image and a sound loop conjure up the impact and resonance of a different aspect of the liminality between reality and dreams.
The images are not video or film, but are magnifications of moving physical objects projected onto the walls.
As you travel through the installation you are immersed in a series of edgy images and sounds charting the ‘moods’ of the mind in those shadowy hours and minutes of the night.
As you leave the installation, the last room allows you to explore another side of such transitional processes, but that needs to be seen on site, at the actual installation…Watch out for its next showing!
Showed at Red Rua Gallery Tallaght, DUBLIN, 2010
In(ter)dependence
This show ran in the McKenna Gallery, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co Kildare from Sept 10th to Oct 17th, 2008. It dealt with how human behaviour changes depending on the interaction with various groups. These subtle changes in our behaviour are often invisible to us in everyday life.
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'Fitting In'
A solo exhibition
at
The Gallery, the Mill,
Celbridge, Co. Kildare
From Nov. 9th-17th-Nov 2006
In this exhibition she used patinated steel figures as the vocabulary to explore the human need to conform and at the same time be unique.
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Ways of Knowing
(A proposal for an exhibition on knowledge and feelings)
The work for this series started in the beginning of 2005 and should be completed by the end of 2006. It will be available for exhibition from then on.
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The Time Capsule
The Time Cap
An installation based on the process of the artist's interaction with the residents of O’Connell Court, Cork, Ireland. It dealt with age and perceptions of age.
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Cork:- An alien Vision
Cork: An Alien View
at
Tom Barrys Pub
Barrack Street, Cork.
July to Aug. 2004
(selected and curated by The Cork Artists’ Collective).
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Rites of Passage
RITES OF PASSAGE
A solo exhibition
of Sculpture
in
The Gallery
Athy Town Hall, Emily Square Athy, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
November 1998
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